Aruba AirWave 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Aruba AirWave

4.7

(15)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Aruba AirWave

Aruba AirWave provides complete visibility into your wireless network, including information on every device connected to it and the ability to locate a mobile device with GPS. The platform also tracks performance metrics such as throughput, jitter, and latency for every device connected to the network.

Aruba AirWave provides the tools you need to ensure that your network is operating at peak performance and users can access the resources they need. It can be used to manage access control and mobility and allows you to create guest networks, filter web content, and enforce security policies on all devices connected to your network.

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Aruba AirWave Pricing and Plans

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Aruba AirWave Features

Popular features found in IT Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Capacity Management
Compliance Management
Incident Management
Issue Auditing
License Management
Maintenance Scheduling
Remote Access/Control
Server Monitoring
Ticket Management
More features of Aruba AirWave
Compliance Tracking
Configuration Management
Dashboard
IP Address Monitoring
Issue Management
IT Asset Management
IT Reporting
Network Analysis
Network Provisioning
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Policy Management
Real-Time Monitoring
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Security Management
Security Tools
Threat Response
Troubleshooting

Aruba AirWave User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

67%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.4

Have you used Aruba AirWave and would like to share your experience with others?

Alexander R.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

10000+ employees

Used other for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Robust full feature wireless management software

I recommend this of you have an enterprise deployment of Aruba APs. Probably not worthwhile using if you are using other OEM APs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

You can do just about everything your physical hardware is capable of doing with this software from the GUI menus, so it is quite powerful. You can find drilldowns and reports of utilization, configuration states, security groups, literally anything you want to see.

Cons:

I am against the whole pay rent for license model that is pure company arbitrage that Aruba uses simply because it can. The learning curve exists especially for advanced configurations such as different CSfC deployments. This is because Aruba has its own names that are not standard in the community for different sorts of groups and settings, so it is something you will have to become familiar with.

Rosaria P.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2024

My Experience With Aruba AirWave

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has handled IT management very well has been very smooth

Cons:

No flaws and Aruba AirWave has been smooth

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Łukasz P.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Electronics

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Wired and wireless network management system at scale

Very good for monitoring WiFi infrastructure with connected clients, but managing access points and switches needs some fine-tuning

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very good monitoring of WiFi infrastructure, VisualRF module for better understanding of the wireless network

Cons:

Difficult to manage AP configuration templates in text mode

Reasons for choosing Aruba AirWave

One vendor for hardware and software

Reasons for switching to Aruba AirWave

Central management of wireless infrastructure, without physical WiFi network controllers

Shawn O.

Verified reviewer

Primary/ Secondary Education

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2023

Aruba AirWave - Easy Network Monitoring and Mangement

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For several years we used the older HP IMC to monitor and manage our wired network but it was not very user friendly and it also did not adapt well to our VM network or our wireless network which is a completely separate network from the wired. A few years ago we were able to get AirWave as part of a Mibs package and it was a game changer. We were able to monitor and manage our entire network from a single console now.

Cons:

The cost is the most prohibitive factor for AirWave and many other platforms similar to it as well. Which was our biggest hold up on getting the product in the first place.

Reasons for switching to Aruba AirWave

Our previous solution was out dated and was no longer supported.

Matt R.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Excellent management platfrom

Overall it's a great product and makes day to day work a lot easier, brings better visibility and deals with mundane tasks for you, which is a great help.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Airwave helps you manage, update and back up all devices that are compatible. It makes managing APs without the need for a controller and the over all feel is easy to use.

Cons:

Not all Aruba branded products are fully compatible with the airwave, which means you can't utilise all features that it has to offer, which can be a bit frustrating.

Clay K.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Aruba AirWave Review

Overall I cannot recommend Aruba AirWave enough. If you are already using the Aruba devices across your network, this is the perfect management platform and consolidates all devices in one interface.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I love most about Aruba is the firmware update feature. We use the same model switches and AP's across our district and AirWave has made it extremely easy to update our devices. All you have to is upload the firmware to your portal and then manage the device and hit upgrade. They make it extremely easy to use. Also, the overall interface is great and very user-friendly.

Cons:

I get why they do it like this, but I wish I didn't have to license every single device. We host the AirWave server in our own environment, and it would be nice if it was a one-time license fee and from there we could manage all of our devices. Keeping up with the licensing can be somewhat tedious, especially if you ever migrate from one AirWave server to the next.

Mike N.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2019

AirWave gives us extensive visibility into out network

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

With our 100% Aruba network, we have leveraged AirWave to deploy switches and monitor all of our network devices.

Cons:

Initially, the setup was a bit clunky, but once we had the system running, it has been smooth sailing.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Aiewave is an Awesome Way to Visually See your Wireless Environment

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like how I am able to visually see the environment of our Aruba IAP solution. I can have it show me the locations of APs, Clients and RF Patterns. This helps me to identify areas that possibly need an AP moved around or an additional AP.

Cons:

The only thing I can think of is the setup takes time to configure and draw/place the APs.

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Overall I am very happy with Aruba Airwave

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Customer support is too good, the VisualRF tool is best due to which I was able to know exactly where a client device is as well as what AP it is connected to. Also, it is easy to use, amount of data statistics, and reporting

Cons:

So far I am unable to see any cons while using AIrwave but only con I can see is that Airwave is bit pricey though it gives some value.

Chad B.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

A great product to have if you use Aruba Access Points.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to view heat maps and view network statistics on a site by site basis is a great feature. Especially when your network consists of over 30 different sites.

Cons:

Web application can sometimes be clunky and doesn't always display the data in real time. I'm sure there is a minor issue though.

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